Iowa Poultry Producers Marketing Association

National Labor Relations Board - Board Decisions

Mar 20, 1940

21 N.L.R.B. 782 (N.L.R.B. 1940)

In the Matter of IOWA POULTRY PRODUCERS MARKETING ASSOCIATION
and UNITED PACKING HOUSE WORKERS OF AMERICA, LOCAL UNION
No. 1 OF THE PACKING HOUSE WORKERS 'ORGANIZING COMMITTEE,'
AFFILIATED WITH THE C. I. O. and AMALGAMATED MEAT CUTTERS
AND BUTCHER WORKMEN OF NORTH AMERICA, LOCAL UNION No. 591,
AFFILIATED WITH THE A. F. OF L.
Case No. RE-1
CERTIFICATION OF REPRESENTATIVES -
March 20,1940
On January 30, 1940, the National Labor Relations Board issued
its Decision and Direction of Election in the above-entitled proceed-
ing.' Pursuant to the Direction of Election an election by secret
ballot was conducted on February 27, 1940, under the direction and
supervision of the Regional Director for the Eighteenth Region
(Minneapolis, Minnesota). On February 29, 1940, the Regional Di-
rector, acting pursuant to Article III, Section 9, of National Labor
Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2, as amended, issued
and duly served upon the parties an Election Report. No objections
to the conduct of the ballot or the Election Report have been filed
by any of the parties.
The Regional Director reported as to the results of the balloting
as follows :
Total number eligible-------------------------.------------- 47
Total number of ballots cast--------------------------------- 27
Total number of votes counted------------------------------- 27
Total number of ballots cast for Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North America, Local Union No 591
(A. F. of L.) --------------------------------------------- 10
Total number of ballots cast for United Packing House Workers
of America, Local Union No. 1 of Packing House Workers
Organizing Committee (C. I. 0.) --------------------------- 11
Total number of ballots cast for neither of the above organiza-
tions----------------------------------------------------- 0
Total number of blank ballots-------------------------------- 0
Total number of void ballots-------------------------------- 0
Total number of challenged ballots--------------------------- 0
119 N. L. R. B. 1063.
21 N. L. R. B, No. 79.
782'
IOWA POULTRY PRODUCERS MARKETING ASS'N 783
By virtue of and pursuant to the. power vested in the National
Labor Relations Board by Section 9 (c) of the National Labor Rela-
tions Act, 49 Stat. 449, and pursuant to Article III, Sections 8 and 9,
of National Labor Relations Board Rules and Regulations-Series 2,
as amended, -
IT Is HEREBY-CERTIFIED that Amalgamated. Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America, Local Union No. 591, affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, has been designated and selected by
a majority of the production and maintenance employees of Iowa
Poultry Producers Marketing Association, Ottumwa, Iowa, including
the day and night engineers, but excluding foremen, working foremen,
the city salesman, and office, clerical, and supervisory employees, as
their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and
that, pursuant to Section 9 (a) of the National Labor Relations Act,
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America,
Local Union No. 591, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor,
is the exclusive representative of all such employees for the purposes
of collective bargaining in respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of
employment, and other conditions of employment.